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Payroll AU: Archive pay runs over data retention period
Ability to Archive Old Payruns - I have a screen that is clogged up with payruns for long since departed employees and associated payruns from 10 years ago. Their employee files have been archived but the payruns still show up in the list. It is crowded and cumbersome. Please add the ability to archive in bulk please Xero?
2 votesThanks for sharing your idea about archiving older pay runs, for example pay runs that exceed 7 years.
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UK Payroll - option to bulk include/exclude all Employees from pay run.
For catering companies, or any business with many employees or recurring weekly staff, payroll can become stressful and very time-consuming. This is because all employees need to be unticked before running payroll for only those who actually worked in that specific week. Other companies face the same issue as well. Is there any shortcut to untick all employees at once before preparing payroll for the employees who actually worked in that week?
16 votesHi everyone, thanks for your votes and comments on this idea. It’s clear that a simple 'Untick All' option when creating a pay run would save you a lot of time. We understand that manually deselecting employees one by one is time consuming, especially for those who have a large number of employees but only need to process a pay run for a few. We will keep this idea updated as we move through any design and development phases.
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AU Payroll - Enter Long Service Leve entitlements in "Weeks" not hours
I would like to enter Long Service leave balances visible to employees in "weeks" instead of "hours" as I want to avoid overstating or understating hours for those employees who have had varied hours over the course of their employment.
I do not want to have to do the long service leave calculations (as per the LSL legislation in Victorian) with each pay run to work out their average hours. When setting up the leave as a Pay item I can select it to be weeks but when I set up the employee it still only allows Hours.
Can Xero…
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UK Payroll - Add Project time tracking in draft pay run rather than timesheets
Currently there is no option to allocate payments to projects in payslips. We have on multiple occasions, allocated payments to projects as a manual journal due to payments for payroll not being allocated to projects in timesheets. It is frustrating as you only realise when checking project profit/loss and quite time consuming.
3 votesThanks for letting us know you're keen to see greater integration between Projects and Payroll.
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Xero Me | Sync timesheets from Practice Manager (XPM)
This was originally raised in 2022. The request hasn't been acted on yet. The 2022 request is being closed due to lack of support.
However, the lack of support is likely to be an indication that current Xero Partners aren't using XPM for recording time, and/or aren't using Xero Payroll. XPM improvements over the past 18 months show that they are investing in that product. Xero Payroll has also been significantly improved in the last 18 month. If Xero wants it's Partners to go full Xero and by extension encourage our clients to go full Xero, then they have to…
5 votesThanks for your suggestion about syncing XPM timesheets with Payroll, Rebecca. We see how this could add value and reduce manual work.
Atm, this isn’t on our roadmap, however we'll continue to keep a watch on the support this idea receives.
We appreciate your feedback and involvement in the Xero community. If the status of this idea changes, we’ll update you here.
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UK Payroll: Ceased Benefits YTD to remain on payslip
The year to date figure of any previous benefits (that have ceased during the tax year) should remain on the payslips for the whole of the tax year in which they were paid. For employees on a cumulative tax code, their year to date tax figure does not make sense without it. This should also be the case for previous pay elements (rather than grouping altogether into other payments), this is to keep a split of the taxable and non-taxable pay elements. Thank you!
5 votesThanks for sharing your idea on having YTD benefits appear consistently on the payslips. I understand benefits make up taxable earnings and should remain on the payslip.
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AU Payroll - Hide earnings rate on employees payslip
Add option to hide hourly rate on full time employee pay slips where they are using the "Base Salary" pay item.
5 votesThanks for sharing your idea about removing hours and rates from payslips so that only the fixed amount shows.
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AU Payroll - Maximum leave accrual limit or expiry dates for leave types.
It would be good to make it possible to either set a maximum leave accrual, or set an expiry date for leave. An example where it could be used would be study leave. We have an agreement with employees that gives them 7 days of study leave per year. Any unused study leave is forfeited after two years. Currently we have to manually monitor and adjust the leave.
8 votesThanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.
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AU Payroll: allowance/other earning types to make up annual salary on payslip.
We have constant feedback that we are not paying people in full because the field Annual Salary Field doesn't include allowances
Can it be the Grossed up salary package?
3 votesThanks for sharing your idea about having the total salary package amount showing on the on payslips.
Currently only employee’s ordinary earnings rate make up the annual salary visible on payslips.
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AU Payroll - Reports downloaded from posted pay runs to include pay period rather than payment date
Every time I process a payroll (hundreds every year), I produce the Payroll reports to send to the client.
The Payroll Activity Details Report AND THE Payroll Employee Summary shows the INCORRECT details in the heading. For example The report reads: "For the period 17 November 2025 to 17 November 2025". THIS IS NOT CORRECT, and it wastes HOURS having to change it every single time.
The Report is for the Processed Pay Period just completed!!!
Can we have this corrected to the pay period when this report is directly created from a payroll run??? the date for Example SHOULD…9 votesThanks for sharing your idea about including the pay period in payroll reports downloaded from posted pay runs. Agree, it makes sense for the pay period to be shown rather than the payment date ("For the period 17 November 2025 to 17 November 2025").
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AU Payroll: Automate Pay Runs
For any fixed salary employees, there should be an option to automate their regular (fortnightly/monthly) payruns. There's no reason why I need to manually create these for fixed salary employees.
Any changes to salary or leave balances etc are all managed separately via their respective employee records or leave requests.
4 votesThanks for sharing your idea about Xero automatically creating pay runs for fixed salary employees.
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Payroll AU: effective start and end dates for pay items on pay template
Can we please have the ability to add effective start and end dates against pay items. For example, a deduction may only be for 10 weeks at a set amount. Rather than having to setup multiple notes offline to remind us of this, can we have this function setup in the payroll system so it only deducts the amount over the set period specified.
5 votesThanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.
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AU Payroll - Detailed leave report including accrued leave, taken, running balance...
We need to be able to run a report showing type of leave, current balance + leave taken + accrued leave over a period of time in the past & the future. This is desperately needed to be able to approve leave without the need of spending time running various reports & exporting into 1 data base in excel just to work out if an employee will have enough leave or not to take leave in the future.
1 voteThanks for sharing your idea, and letting us know the changes that matter most for you.
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Payroll AU: Display the Full Pay Period in a Pay Run
Feature Suggestion: Display the Full Pay Period in Payroll
It would be extremely helpful if Xero could display the full pay period (From DD/MM/YY to DD/MM/YY) within the payroll pay window, rather than only showing the "Week Ending" date.
For example, instead of displaying:
Week Ending 05/07/2026
display:
Pay Period: Wednesday 29/06/2026 to Tuesday 05/07/2026
or
29/06/2026 – 05/07/2026I process payroll for multiple entities with different pay cycles and pay periods. Having the start and end dates clearly visible would make it much easier to confirm that the correct pay run is being processed, reduce the risk of errors,…
2 votesThanks for sharing your idea on the full pay period visibility within the pay employees page.
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UK Payroll: Review multiple draft payslips at once.
Improvements to the pay run processing screen. Recently moved from Quickbooks to Xero and transitioned payroll across at the same time. I love Xero but I found it so much more intuitive to review the pay run in QuickBooks.
Being able to see each employee in a sort of gross to net report and being able to expand an employee out and see how the calculations were made in quickbooks felt so intuitive and easy to follow. In comparison, Xero feels quite clunky and dated. Also the ability to quickly run a variance report to see month on month changes…
1 voteThanks for sharing your idea on having more visibility across a draft pay run, rather than needing to click into individual payslips.
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UK Payroll - Add tracking to NI, PAYE & pension
I would like to be able to allocate a team tracking category to each employee on our payroll, this way when the payroll journal pulls through, each employees salary, Er NI, pension costs and any benefits will automatically be allocated to their team.
I do quarterly reporting for our client and as it currently is, each quarter I will have to manual journal all the above accounts from an unassigned 'team', back into the same account but allocated to their correct team. I will have to work out the amounts to credit out looking at the detailed report and manually…
3 votesThanks for sharing your idea to have group tracking apply to liabilities such as NI, PAYE and pension contributions.
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Payroll AU > Timesheets: Restrict pay items the payroll admin can select.
When entering a Timesheet only the correct pay rates, as set up in the employees rates, is shown in the drop down. This would prevent the mistake of choosing the wrong rate and prevent the payroll officer from having to remember everyones rates.
1 voteThanks for suggesting that admin users only be able to select timesheet pay items listed on the pay template. We’ve reviewed your idea, and it’s now open for community support! Be sure to share the link with colleagues who’d benefit from this so they can vote. Other members can also comment to share how this update would improve their workflow in Xero.
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AU Payroll - Payroll Admin to create Time Sheet templates on behalf of employees
An Upgrade to the Timesheets function that would allow businesses to create permanent, personalised templates for individual employees.
Currently, timesheets need to be manually updated each pay period, which increases the risk of inconsistency and errors. Having the ability to set up fixed Earnings Rate descriptions as part of a permanent template would make timesheets more efficient, accurate, and tailored to each business.
For example, it would be very useful if a timesheet template could include pre-set lines such as:
Ordinary hours – Direct
Ordinary hours – Operating
Overtime hours (exempt from super)
Overtime hours (including super)
Overtime Mon–Sat –…
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AU Payroll - More calculation methods for Superannuation
The pay template offers 3 options for calculating super SG rate, Fixed Amount or Percentage of Earnings. We would like to request an additional to allow a number of Units x A fixed amount.
This is particularly important for industries like transport where super is paid based on a trip rate.1 voteThanks for sharing your idea on adding a Per Unit calculation method for SGC.
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Payroll AU: Add Pay run (PD) Identifier to Payroll Activity Details report
There's currently no way to display the Payroll Expense Journal identifier (such as PD-47) within the Payroll Activity Details report. This is a limitation of Xero's current reporting functionality.
When a pay run is posted, Xero creates a single general ledger journal titled Payroll Expense Journal - PD-[number]. The PD reference corresponds directly to the pay run number and payment date shown at the top of the Payroll Activity Details report for that period. This is the ONLY UNIQUE LINKING KEY between the general ledger and the employee-level detail in Payroll.
Many NFP's need to be able to report on…
1 voteThanks for sharing your idea. While adding the Payroll Journal IDs to this report isn't currently on our roadmap, we'd love to see what the rest of the community think about this suggestion.
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